No, It should provide potential. Public School in America is communist education. There is no benefit for working harder or being smarter. You still get the same lessons, at the same time, in the same way. Learning something before your 'peers' is punished because then you must sit bored while the teacher tells you the same thing over again. I checked out early on because I was frequently punished by classmates and the teachers for understanding the material and being ready to move on before the rest of the class.
I don't mean for it to sound pompous. No more pompous than it is for someone who makes a better product to wait to sell his superior product until his competition with inferior numbers catch up to him in sales. Our ideals condemn this for something as simple as a cigarette lighter but condone it for our most important product, our children, our future.
Why is Libertarianism popular with geeks? Because most of us have had 'The Man' hold us back since we were little children and we have plenty of resentment of rigid beuracracy.
A system designed to spy on customers which, out of disregard for those customers, can cost those users their computer, files, and productivity? Microsoft doesn't have customers. It has victims.
It all goes to trust and loyalty. How could a company that has such a widespread use take all of that potential customer loyalty and fanbase and turn it into a seething hatred? I really don't see how Microsoft can not make small gestures to gather users on to it's side. Even the people that use their product seem to hate Microsoft for their apparent disregard for the consumer.
If I had 20 customers I'd be working at making them my most loyal fans. If I had millions of customers I'd be looking at starting my own country. How Microsoft can squeeze it's customers like lemons and sit enjoying lemonade while being hated, I just don't understand it. Microsoft is a bad example of how a company should do business, regardless of the profit margin.
But did everyone have Dumb Terminals sitting in their living room? The move to PC's made it possible for everyone to have that processing power in their house. Now everyone has network access at home and work and in their car and on the bus and in their pocket. So there isn't the same problem with connection or cost. Now the focus is having [your stuff] everywhere. And services work well for that.
Too true. Blocking content will kill the cable companies as fast as not blocking it. The problem with blocking content is that we have returned to an internet that is very much user created content and sharing. It is this sharing of content that makes it so attractive to younger users. If they throttle this and that, they will find that they start losing customers. By losing customers they will cut content on the internet, further reducing interest and customers for their access to the internet. In the end they will either have to fix their bandwidth problems or face losing their internet business as popular websites fail and the internet loses the interest of a new generation. It's much like a party when a few people leave it starts the ball rolling and before long the party is dead and everyone leaves.
I don't think MTV has to fear alienating viewers. They've been unable to provide TV and content for years now. I don't see why this should be any different.
Amen. Some schools do suck, some teachers suck, many students suck, but A LOT of parents suck. Let me recant that though, many parents suck at encouraging their kids to learn, but they aren't necessarily bad people. Many low-income parents didn't do well in school or had bad experiences there. They fear authority and so they fear the school and have a hard time coming in to ask for help. So we end up with a lot of parents with bad school experiences and parents that are very uneducated or mentally impaired. They can't help their kids with their work. Or, they don't want their kids to feel stupid so they tell them that school isn't important, because they fear their students will fail like they did and feel stupid like they do. Many middle and high income parents don't want the lowly teachers to tell them their kid is stupid or lazy, or other wise failing and refuse to let their children know when they aren't succeeding.
I don't want to excuse poor parenting or instilling in their children a desire to better themselves. They are cheating our future. Our children don't go to work with us and learn from us anymore, they go home after school and watch TV instead. Schools can't do all the work. Children need to learn the value of work and improving themselves. They need real life experiences to build upon. Unfortunately for all Americans, that is something that is happening less frequently every year. I don't want to excuse the parents that are failing our kids but I hope that our society can find a way to fix these problems instead of blaming the schools for children that refuse to learn and parents that think that's acceptable.
True. IT doesn't make money, it saves money. With limited sources the IT depts have to decide how to get the most done and get the most satisfaction out of limited resources that wont completely satisfy anyone. Add to that the insane and expensive projects demanded by those who are paid enough to know better, or, at least to rely on people that know better, and you end up with a herculean task that anyone in IT who is competent should be getting a medal. But, the bigger the company is, the more important that it have standardized interfaces and support. This is less efficient for everybody, but still probably saves a ton of money by moderately inconveniencing people instead of facing major internal threats.
Just watch out that they aren't using other software to monitor processes. You can change the filename to bypass the restrictions but there could be process monitoring software that would inform them that you are bypassing security measures. I doubt anyone cares *that* much, but CYA.
There was some article about this a few years ago. It basically said that when you reach a certain level of realism people become anxious because it looks so real, except for *that something* which is so hard to put your finger on. I know someone with a lot of dolls. You know what? The ones that look the most real are scary. Because of the same thing. That something special is missing. They look like soul-less babies... some kind of reanimated still-born nightmare.
Now we get CGI that does the same thing. We get models that look like someone is controlling a corpse. Maybe a human looking corpse, but that something special is missing.
I thought of this when reading the article when they asked Knoll about a remake. Remaking Tron would be impossible. Tron was something that really marked its time. Part of the magic of the movie was the era. It was a great movie, and the concept and graphics marked it's time well.
A rethinking of Tron is really the Matrix. Both concepts hinged on a person trapped in a computer and having to overcome the 'evil' technology that was abused in some way and returning it to human control. The Matrix is the natural evolution of Tron. Instead of a nice resolution where man gained control of the technology, in The Matrix control was never restored but man worked out a truce with machine. We've come from a place where we were unsure about the role of computers in the future to a time where we anticipate their power and understand that the genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
Both were masterpieces of their time that captured a culture's fears and anticipations of technology with cutting edge computer generated graphics which set the tone for the setting of the movie.
I only partially agree with the above. While constant public supervision will lead to better public accountability, the government has already learned that in order to stop freedom of speech you really only need to oppress the freedom to listen. Constant surveillance deters citizens from assembling to listen to people that the government and media label as 'enemies of the state' or 'perverts' or whatever else they might come up with. The U.S.A. government already practiced this with the monitoring of libraries via the Patriot Act. It wont matter if anyone is speaking the truth if everyone is afraid of being caught listening.
I'll back that up. Alcohol definitely makes this a better process because it dries faster and it will do a better job of killing whatever germs are on there. I avoid soap. I've never used the dishwasher because I've worked about the pressure knocking some important pieces off. But I have had several items washed in the sink.
The best was when one of my students puked into a keyboard. People saw me washing it and were shocked. I got asked about 30 times if that was safe to wash a keyboard in the sink. I told them water is better for electronics than vomit. I almost threw it out but I knew what a pain in the ass it would be to get it replaced. I still dumped a whole bottle of isopropyl through the thing.
Don't be stupid......If you run them over you'll crack their little shells and everyone knows that Tortoise shells make great hubcaps. Almost as good as great big baby seal eyes for headlights.
Probably so that you couldn't scratch a DRM area off the disk, like a region code or something. Wasn't there some hack a few years back with sharpies for something or other?
Perhaps. But all the same, the hard drive manufacturers are using decimal 10^6 to describe items that are universally described in binary 2^. It's not as though HP is shipping computers and telling UPS that their 2048 pounds of computers only weighs one ton.
Google already has all my email and records on all of my searches. Having Double-Click wont change much. I'm not worried about Google misusing my information as much as I am worried about the government taking my personal information from Google. I am a little concerned about how much information there is on me in Google should someone hack their systems or if they were internally compromised. But with my other options being Microsoft, Comcast, whoever, I don't really feel like I have much privacy online, except through obscurity. I think the real threat that people are feeling is that those other guys are all fuck-ups that probably can't keep anything straight, while Google is going to be effective at indexing all of this information and retaining it long term. The wild west is over and I'm sad to see it go. But it's gone.
I'm no biologist. But the article does reference that this only seems to have affected some types of sea life and not others. Also, it mentioned that cosmic rays would be linked to cloud cover and therefor cooling of the atmosphere. Perhaps this change in temperature might be significant for why some types of sea life would be more affected than others? Just a couple of ideas.
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No, It should provide potential. Public School in America is communist education. There is no benefit for working harder or being smarter. You still get the same lessons, at the same time, in the same way. Learning something before your 'peers' is punished because then you must sit bored while the teacher tells you the same thing over again. I checked out early on because I was frequently punished by classmates and the teachers for understanding the material and being ready to move on before the rest of the class.
I don't mean for it to sound pompous. No more pompous than it is for someone who makes a better product to wait to sell his superior product until his competition with inferior numbers catch up to him in sales. Our ideals condemn this for something as simple as a cigarette lighter but condone it for our most important product, our children, our future.
Why is Libertarianism popular with geeks? Because most of us have had 'The Man' hold us back since we were little children and we have plenty of resentment of rigid beuracracy.
A system designed to spy on customers which, out of disregard for those customers, can cost those users their computer, files, and productivity? Microsoft doesn't have customers. It has victims.
It all goes to trust and loyalty. How could a company that has such a widespread use take all of that potential customer loyalty and fanbase and turn it into a seething hatred? I really don't see how Microsoft can not make small gestures to gather users on to it's side. Even the people that use their product seem to hate Microsoft for their apparent disregard for the consumer.
If I had 20 customers I'd be working at making them my most loyal fans. If I had millions of customers I'd be looking at starting my own country. How Microsoft can squeeze it's customers like lemons and sit enjoying lemonade while being hated, I just don't understand it. Microsoft is a bad example of how a company should do business, regardless of the profit margin.
It's not everyday you see CLASS and RIAA in the same sentence.
But did everyone have Dumb Terminals sitting in their living room? The move to PC's made it possible for everyone to have that processing power in their house. Now everyone has network access at home and work and in their car and on the bus and in their pocket. So there isn't the same problem with connection or cost. Now the focus is having [your stuff] everywhere. And services work well for that.
Too true. Blocking content will kill the cable companies as fast as not blocking it. The problem with blocking content is that we have returned to an internet that is very much user created content and sharing. It is this sharing of content that makes it so attractive to younger users. If they throttle this and that, they will find that they start losing customers. By losing customers they will cut content on the internet, further reducing interest and customers for their access to the internet. In the end they will either have to fix their bandwidth problems or face losing their internet business as popular websites fail and the internet loses the interest of a new generation.
It's much like a party when a few people leave it starts the ball rolling and before long the party is dead and everyone leaves.
I don't think MTV has to fear alienating viewers. They've been unable to provide TV and content for years now. I don't see why this should be any different.
More like olds. This is like complaining that geocities is full of hacks.
Ahhh, true file sharing prevention... 300 baud.
Amen. Some schools do suck, some teachers suck, many students suck, but A LOT of parents suck. Let me recant that though, many parents suck at encouraging their kids to learn, but they aren't necessarily bad people. Many low-income parents didn't do well in school or had bad experiences there. They fear authority and so they fear the school and have a hard time coming in to ask for help. So we end up with a lot of parents with bad school experiences and parents that are very uneducated or mentally impaired. They can't help their kids with their work. Or, they don't want their kids to feel stupid so they tell them that school isn't important, because they fear their students will fail like they did and feel stupid like they do. Many middle and high income parents don't want the lowly teachers to tell them their kid is stupid or lazy, or other wise failing and refuse to let their children know when they aren't succeeding.
I don't want to excuse poor parenting or instilling in their children a desire to better themselves. They are cheating our future. Our children don't go to work with us and learn from us anymore, they go home after school and watch TV instead. Schools can't do all the work. Children need to learn the value of work and improving themselves. They need real life experiences to build upon. Unfortunately for all Americans, that is something that is happening less frequently every year. I don't want to excuse the parents that are failing our kids but I hope that our society can find a way to fix these problems instead of blaming the schools for children that refuse to learn and parents that think that's acceptable.
True. IT doesn't make money, it saves money. With limited sources the IT depts have to decide how to get the most done and get the most satisfaction out of limited resources that wont completely satisfy anyone. Add to that the insane and expensive projects demanded by those who are paid enough to know better, or, at least to rely on people that know better, and you end up with a herculean task that anyone in IT who is competent should be getting a medal. But, the bigger the company is, the more important that it have standardized interfaces and support. This is less efficient for everybody, but still probably saves a ton of money by moderately inconveniencing people instead of facing major internal threats.
Just watch out that they aren't using other software to monitor processes. You can change the filename to bypass the restrictions but there could be process monitoring software that would inform them that you are bypassing security measures. I doubt anyone cares *that* much, but CYA.
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There was some article about this a few years ago. It basically said that when you reach a certain level of realism people become anxious because it looks so real, except for *that something* which is so hard to put your finger on. I know someone with a lot of dolls. You know what? The ones that look the most real are scary. Because of the same thing. That something special is missing. They look like soul-less babies... some kind of reanimated still-born nightmare.
Now we get CGI that does the same thing. We get models that look like someone is controlling a corpse. Maybe a human looking corpse, but that something special is missing.
I thought of this when reading the article when they asked Knoll about a remake. Remaking Tron would be impossible. Tron was something that really marked its time. Part of the magic of the movie was the era. It was a great movie, and the concept and graphics marked it's time well.
A rethinking of Tron is really the Matrix. Both concepts hinged on a person trapped in a computer and having to overcome the 'evil' technology that was abused in some way and returning it to human control. The Matrix is the natural evolution of Tron. Instead of a nice resolution where man gained control of the technology, in The Matrix control was never restored but man worked out a truce with machine. We've come from a place where we were unsure about the role of computers in the future to a time where we anticipate their power and understand that the genie doesn't go back in the bottle.
Both were masterpieces of their time that captured a culture's fears and anticipations of technology with cutting edge computer generated graphics which set the tone for the setting of the movie.
I thought that was Echelon?
I only partially agree with the above. While constant public supervision will lead to better public accountability, the government has already learned that in order to stop freedom of speech you really only need to oppress the freedom to listen. Constant surveillance deters citizens from assembling to listen to people that the government and media label as 'enemies of the state' or 'perverts' or whatever else they might come up with. The U.S.A. government already practiced this with the monitoring of libraries via the Patriot Act. It wont matter if anyone is speaking the truth if everyone is afraid of being caught listening.
I'll back that up. Alcohol definitely makes this a better process because it dries faster and it will do a better job of killing whatever germs are on there. I avoid soap. I've never used the dishwasher because I've worked about the pressure knocking some important pieces off. But I have had several items washed in the sink.
The best was when one of my students puked into a keyboard. People saw me washing it and were shocked. I got asked about 30 times if that was safe to wash a keyboard in the sink. I told them water is better for electronics than vomit. I almost threw it out but I knew what a pain in the ass it would be to get it replaced. I still dumped a whole bottle of isopropyl through the thing.
You'd have to learn to type with your ass though...
Don't be stupid... ...If you run them over you'll crack their little shells and everyone knows that Tortoise shells make great hubcaps. Almost as good as great big baby seal eyes for headlights.
I once had an American librarian tell me it was a good idea for government to track what people read in libraries because it would stop terrorists.
Probably so that you couldn't scratch a DRM area off the disk, like a region code or something. Wasn't there some hack a few years back with sharpies for something or other?
Perhaps. But all the same, the hard drive manufacturers are using decimal 10^6 to describe items that are universally described in binary 2^. It's not as though HP is shipping computers and telling UPS that their 2048 pounds of computers only weighs one ton.
Google already has all my email and records on all of my searches. Having Double-Click wont change much. I'm not worried about Google misusing my information as much as I am worried about the government taking my personal information from Google. I am a little concerned about how much information there is on me in Google should someone hack their systems or if they were internally compromised. But with my other options being Microsoft, Comcast, whoever, I don't really feel like I have much privacy online, except through obscurity. I think the real threat that people are feeling is that those other guys are all fuck-ups that probably can't keep anything straight, while Google is going to be effective at indexing all of this information and retaining it long term. The wild west is over and I'm sad to see it go. But it's gone.
I'm no biologist. But the article does reference that this only seems to have affected some types of sea life and not others. Also, it mentioned that cosmic rays would be linked to cloud cover and therefor cooling of the atmosphere. Perhaps this change in temperature might be significant for why some types of sea life would be more affected than others? Just a couple of ideas.
"...the majority of people in the world to not speak English as their first language."
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See, you wouldn't be making typos like that if you spoke English as your first language. See what you get for using some weird alternative language.
You probably speak Australian or something.